Friday, May 31, 2024
European defense giants BAE Systems and EADS appear close to completing a corporate merger, and Boeing Chief Executive Officer Jim McNerney -- speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations today -- was asked for his view on how that joint company would impact Boeing.
Raytheon will have about 10 months and $70 million to compete with Boeing for the future of the Family of Advanced Beyond-Line-of-Sight Terminals program, the Defense Department said in a contract announcement yesterday afternoon.
Raytheon officially found out this week that it will get another chance to compete with Boeing for the role of prime contractor on the Family of Advanced Beyond-Line-of-Sight Terminals program, as the Air Force announced its plans to award Raytheon an alternate contract for FAB-T.
The Defense Department is just days away from awarding a Bell-Boeing team a new contract to provide performance-based logistics and supply chain management services for the V-22 Osprey, Boeing officials said today.
The first and only Space-Based Space Surveillance satellite has achieved initial operational capability, Air Force Space Command officials announced this week.
As the Air Force prepares to award a contract early next year that will overhaul the way it handles sustainment of its Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile fleet, the service is getting ready to put longtime prime industry participant Northrop Grumman on a bridge contract by next month to ease the transition to that future ICBM management structure.
The Air Force's X-51A Waverider hypersonic vehicle failed yesterday in its attempt to fly at Mach 6 for five minutes, as service officials announced today that the vehicle lasted less than one minute in flight before being lost.
The Air Force is close to giving GPS III prime contractor Lockheed Martin and launch provider United Launch Alliance the green light to conduct a follow-on study on the possibility of launching two Global Positioning System III satellites on one rocket booster in an effort to make dual launch a reality by 2017, or possibly even earlier.
Air Force officials confirmed this afternoon that the service's F-35A Pilot Training Center will be housed at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, a decision that was widely expected but required a drawn-out environmental evaluation before it could be formally announced.
Air Force officials believe they have identified a valve on the "G Suit" worn by F-22 pilots that has contributed to breathing problems for some, contending that the "vast majority" of the 11 most recent unexplained incidents in the aircraft can be attributed to the valve.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has approved the deployment of a squadron of F-22 Raptors to Japan and will soon do away with some of the restrictions on flying the aircraft, though altitude limits and other restrictions will remain in place for the time being.
Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) this morning expressed his support for an "independent assessment" of the Air Force's proposed future force structure, an assessment already recommended by the Senate Armed Services Committee.
A newly obtained memo from the Defense Department's operational energy chief lays out the process by which DOD plans to certify, test and eventually buy alternative fuels.
Air Force Comptroller Jamie Morin has been appointed the service's new acting under secretary, according to an Air Force public affairs statement released this morning.
Seven months after Rolls-Royce and General Electric stopped self-funding the Joint Strike Fighter's second engine -- and more than a year after the Defense Department issued the contractors a stop-work order on the F136 engine -- termination proceedings are still not complete, Rolls-Royce officials said today.
The Senate Armed Services Committee opposes Air Force plans to close the Operationally Responsive Space office, recommending instead that more money be directed to fund ORS activities.
In lieu of approving a base realignment and closure round, the Senate Armed Services Committee has recommended the creation of a BRAC-like commission that would study the “appropriate makeup” of the Air Force's blended structure of active-duty, National Guard and Reserve airmen.
The two military services responsible for the Defense Department's nuclear arsenal plan to jointly develop life-extension programs for their intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missile warheads, according to a senior Air Force official.
The Pentagon is stepping up efforts to improve a massive conventional bomb designed to destroy hardened, underground and deeply buried facilities.
In response to some very public comments made by two F-22 pilots on the safety of flying the fighter jet, the Office of the Secretary of Defense has directed the Air Force to take further precautions against the hypoxia-like incidents affecting the fleet.